I am addicted to this show. I usually don't enjoy stories about dystopian worlds, but somehow the Matt Dillon pulled be in to his seemingly perfect town and his fight to get out of there.
Matt Dillion plays FBI agent Ethan Burke and he ends up in the quaint town of
Wayward Pines, Idaho after a "car accident." Somehow everyone in the town ended up there after a car accident. Strange, no? When he drives out of the town, the road leads right back in again and there' a large electric fence around the perimeter.The town's rules include: always pick up the phone and do not speak of the past.
Ethan's wife Teresa (I'm giving a shout out to
Shannyn Sossamon for getting a new acting gig, it's been slow since A Knight's Tale) and son Ben end up in an accident too and get deposited in the town, and they meet a cast of characters, including Ethan's missing partner and former lover, Kate (
Carla Gugino). Kate says she's been married for 12 wonderful years to the wonderful toy maker Harold, but she only went missing 6 weeks ago from Seattle. Sound weird yet?
Don't worry, it's about to get stranger. The town hospital is patrolled by a super creepy nurse (
Melissa Leo) that wears whites for work and black leather and braided hair when she goes to the town to take care of business. The town sheriff (
Terrence Howard) is going around murdering people in the town square and telling them their cars were totaled in the "accidents". Then he dies and Ethan is appointed via mailbox note that he is the new sheriff. Plus, the only school, Wayward Pines academy, is teaching more than math and science, it's brainwashing the youth to lead a new generation based on on one fact:
Here's why:(SPOILER)
Wayward Pines is the only town left of civilization after humans began to mutate and become "abbeys", a wild hyena-like creature that destroy and eat everything in sight. The year everyone has woken up in is 4028, when crazy scientist David Pilcher (
Toby Jones) deemed it would be safe to start the human race again. Pilcer and his sister Pamela (the crazy nurse) began kidnapping people that would be frozen in pods and awakened when the abbey infestation was mostly done and the earth would be all green again. They tried to tell people what had happened, but they all went mad and killed themselves or others (so now this is the second society of 20+ years).
To recap, everyone was taken by 2014 (Ethan was investigating kidnappings for the FBI when he got taken himself). Pilcher and his followers woke up first and formed command center to govern the lives of people. Every conversation and movement is tracked with camera, microphones and tracking chips.Worst of all, there's no cable or music left, except for the guy that plays piano on the radio at nights). At least there's a beer hall!
As for the people in the 2nd society, only the teenagers are told the truth. The creepy teacher Mrs. Fisher (
Hope Davis) instructs the older students and takes them into a room under the school to conduct instruction for how life will be with the first generation, a group that knows the truth about the future and has not been in the world too long to have a major freak out about jumping 2,000 years into the future.
Youre Move, Pines... What's next?
All of a sudden, I have become an insta-Van Gough when it comes to painting. I've become a convert to the popular paint nite events, where you're encouraged to paint creatively and toss back some wine while you paint. I These events are held at local bars and taught by brilliant and entertaining artists. They play music, instruct on color mixing (break out the 2nd grade color wheel for a refresher course in mixing) and drag you through a mini art lesson in the span of two hours. I went from a casual interest in painting to running out to my local craft store and buying mini canvases, acrylic paints and mini brushes. In short, I'm running out of places to hide the canvases, but I truly love it!
